West!

Yesterday, we set out on our westward journey: 6,000 miles, 25 days, 20+ states, 9 national parks, 6 people, 6 cameras, and one 32ft RV. Although we do love “The Amazing Race”, there will be no road blocks, detours, fast-forwards, speed-bumps, pit stops, or mandatory rest periods. This is the plan… and we plan to keep you posted. We hope to blog every day or so, to share our journey with you.


After hundreds of trips back and forth from the house to the RV, the RV was finally loaded… loaded to the gills (clearly there could be nothing left in our house). We left home at noon yesterday, after a bit of a late start. Proceeded west on route 88, then route 86. Crossed the line into PA around 7:00 pm and close behind that was the border of Ohio at around 7:45pm. Despite the V-10 it is tough to make good time in an 8.5’ x 12’ x 32’ bread box on wheels.

With a quick dinner in our bellies we decided to put a few more miles behind us before stopping for the night. As I drove, plowing through the air I pondered the engineering of the RV. The shape, size, and design is quite unnatural in the world of vehicles. I couldn’t help but draw a comparison between what the engineers were thinking about when they designed and developed the RV vs. what God was thinking when he created the platypus. It’s just not natural.